Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1902 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Kiel]uni Jones, n farmer near Belmont, Ark., was killed and two of his children fatally injured in a runaway. Anson Crii>i>en was killed by the explosion of the hoiler of a thrashing machine near Mound Ridge, Kan. B. F. Wofford, known as “the watermelon king," living at Rude). Ark., wus accidentally killed at Monnett, Mo. Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland announces that he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President. Stute Legislator Rhodes Clay was shot and killed by Attorney Clarence liarnes in a street duel at Mexico, Mo. the result of a bitter political enmity. The police officials have ordered all fortune tellers and clairvoyants engaged in their business in Cleveland either to quit their calling or leave the city. In a shooting affray ut Fifth and Flanders streets, Portland, Ore., one woman and two men were killed. A man named A. L. Bedding is under arrest for the crime. Miss Jessie Morrison has arrived at the State penitentiary at Lansing, Kan., to begin her twenty-five years’ sentence for tlie murder of Mrs, Olin Castle at Eldorado. The family of Martin Kress, near Bellefoutaiue, Ohio, ate tainted Rochefort cheese, and ns a result two children are dead and the parents are not expected to recover. Archbishop Patrick A. Feehnn of the diocese of Chicago, 73 years of age, died suddenly at the nrchiepiscopnl residence. The death of the aged prelate was caused by apoplexy. Harry E. Hayes of the banking and bond firm of W. J. Hayes & Son, Cleveland, New York, Chit ago and other eitles, narrowly escaped death in an automobile accident at Cleveland. The fast newspaper mail train onAho Pennsylvania Railroad decapitated John Kane. 11 years old, at Delphos, Ohio, and when it reached Lima the same train killed Andrew Stneber. The steamer Portland, which had been

given up as lost, arrived at St. Michaels, according to a special dispatch. The vessel is in good condition, and the passengers and crew are well. While watching an exciting baseball game, in which liis only ton wa* participating, Irving McGowan, a well-known St. Louis financier, died suddenly from an affliction of the heart. It is announced that SIOO,OOO of the $200,000 debt standing against tlfe University of Denver had been subscribed by Denver men and that the remaining $40,000 would be pledged by Sept. 1. County Prosecutor Ilbffheimer of Cincinnati has been notified by Consul Pearson nt Genoa, Italy, that Clara Taylor, accused of kidnaping little Margaret Taylor, has been released unconditionally. The yacht Arab Fourth was capsized far out in Lake Michigan by/the sudden squall at Chicago, and two persons were drowned. Three others were rescued after a heart-breaking pull against wind and sea. Two towns In North Dakota and one in Minnesota were reported wiped ont by cyclone, with possible loss of scores of lives. Much valuable property is known to have been destroyed, country districts suffering severely. Willis Bartlett, a well-to-do negro of Wichita, Kan., killed Luther Crosswaite, his brother-in-law, after having been attacked and wounded by the latter. CrosswaiteV wife bad left him and fled to Bartlett, her brother. James Conover, aged GO, a wealthy farmer near Mason, Ohio, murdered his wife by pounding her head with a club. Conover was confined in an asylum for the insane for some time, but was released three months ago. The real reason for James J. Corbett’s refusal to go to San Francisco for the Fitzsimmons-Jeffries fight has just become known. He has had to undergo an operation for a cancerous growth on his tongue caused by excessive smoking. The mining camp of Spotted Horse. Montana, was visited by a fire that practically wiped out the miuiug plant and other buildings. The fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin. There was no insurance. The plant will lie rebuilt. The strike of the conductors and motormen of the Cincinnati Traction Company del not materialize. Prompt action of the company in discharging twenty-five union men and securing others in their places had the desired effect and not a man quit work. A passenger train collided with a freight on an open switch on the Northwestern Railroad at Ankeny, lowa. The passenger express was running at high speed and both engines were wrecked. Fifteen passengers were injured, two seriously. James P. Steckel, aged 71 years, dropped dead on the street nt Atchison, Kan., from the rupture of an artery in the brain. A strange coincidence is that Steckel’s wife dropped dead ten years ago almost on the same spot where her husband died. C. E. Ward, aged 30 years, privnte secretary to the president of the Great Western Railroad at Chicago, committed suicide at the home of his parents in Canon City, Colo., by shooting himself In the head. He was suffering from nervous prostration. Police Cuptain John Fitchette, known throughout the West ns “Coffee John,” was convicted at Minneapolis of trafficking in positions on the police force. The specific charge was one of accepting S2OO from John Long for procuring his appointment as a policeman. The bodies of the four persons found murdered near Prudence, Okla., are be* lieved to be those of A. C. Stone, his'wife and two children of Baxter Springs, Kan. J. W. Stone, a brother of the dead man, who is in Joplin, expresses this opinion, after being in telephouic communication with the sheriff at Enid, Okla. Mayor Hugo, the Republican candidate, remains the Mayor of Duluth. The Supreme Court has so decided. One vote counted for Truelson.was thrown out, thus giving Hugo a majority of four. The court held that the neglect of the judges to place their initials on the ballots did not invalidate the votes of those voting them. Four hundred boilermakers and helpers on the Great Northern Railway system, who went on strike in St. Paul for higher wages some six weeks ago, have returned to work. There were concessions on both sides. Under the new schedule the men will receive an advance of 2o cents per day over the scale in effect before the strike.

The section about Cody, Wyo., is aroused over the recent forest reserve extension. The extension takes in many townships which have been the winter rauges for thousands of sheep. A. A. Anderson, the New York artist, who lias been appointed special superintendent of the Yellowstone and Teton reserve, has been threatened with assault. Christopher Leonidas and his son, patent medicine men of Chicago, were shot and killed in a fight with the mate on a Mississippi river steamboat near Davenport, lowa. Leonidas and his son were known as “the long-haired medicine men.” They wore their hair long and plaited in the back, and were usually attired in buckskin clothing, with revolvers and knives in their belts. Death by hanging for one and life imprisonment for the other is the punishment to which Frank Tanke and his wife respectively were sentenced at Henderson, Minn., for the murder of John Wellner, Mrs. Tanke’s first husband, Dec. 81, 1808. At tlie time of the murder Tanke was the hiresl man, Mrs. Tanke pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree and made a desperate but futile effort to free her husband. An organised gang of horse thieves is working in the western part of Wisconsin and eastern part of Minnesota. During the past few days as many as six stolen horses have been reported to the La Crosse authorities from various parts of tliut section of the country. One was stolen at West Salem and another at Melrose, The thieves usually take a buggy also. The sheriff’s force has been unsuccessful in the search thus far. Tourists from the Fast to the number of fifty or more were lined up in the canyon at the foot of Marshall Pass, Colo., by a gang of train robbers and relieved of oil their valuables. A few minutes before this the highwaymen had stopped the west-liound passenger train on the Denver and Rio Grande, almost destroyed the express car with several charges «f dynamite, blown open two safes and secured their contents. The plunder,

wjth which the bandit* made their eaeape, nearly filled ,two gunny sacks, and its value-is thought to have been large. The robbery was committed at 8:50 a. m., at a point known as Mill Switch, near Chester, on the western slope of Marshall Pass. The traip is the most important that runs on the narrow-gauge line to Gunnison, Lake City,. Ouray, Tejluride and other mountain towns, and, as usual at this time of year, was filled with pleasure seekers. The jury in the trial of Frank Addy at Litchfield, Minn., rendered a verdict of not guilty, after being out twenty-six hours. Addy was charged with the murder of Mr. and,.Mrs, Milton Gorton at Forest City on New Year's eve. The aged couple perished in a fire that destroyed their house, and Addy, their hired man, was arrested. Addy wns immediately rearrested and will be tried on a separate indictment in connection with the death of Mrs. Gorton.